Help make a "Weird Al" Yankovic coloring/art book happen with the help of the author of Weird Al: The Book & The Weird Accordion to Al!
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Howdy y'all!
You know me primarily as a dude who has written an endless series of books about the greatness of "Weird Al" Yankovic but when I'm not writing about how amazing Al is I tend to write about the fascinatingly terrible.
To that end, I just published my EIGHTH blockbuster book, The Joy of Trash. The Joy of Trash collects the very best pieces about the very worst in film, television, books and life from the Happy Place’s archives alongside eight new entries on both seasons of Baywatch Nights, Shasta McNasty, Robert Evans’ Get High On Yourself, Adrien Brody’s notoriously ad-libbed introduction for Sean Paul on Saturday Night Live, and more.
The Joy of Trash offers an irreverent alternate history of the past fifty years as seen through the prism of pop culture’s most entertainingly unhinged losers, including the Brady Bunch’s ill-fated variety show, Emeril Lagasse’s sitcom, suicidally depressed fast food pitch-man Mr. Delicious and the misguided literary endeavors of Joan Crawford and Lou Pearlman.
Since the Happy Place roared to life during the early days of the DJT presidency, The Joy of Trash is also a comic catalog of the cultural horrors that made the Trump years such a surreal nightmare.
In riotously funny chapters illustrated by Felipe Sobreiro, who previously worked with Rabin on The Weird Accordion to Al and The Weird A-Coloring to Al, Rabin eviscerates the Fyre Festival, Rachel Dolezal and Milo Yiannopoulos’ mortifying would-be manifestos, Steven Seagal’s Alt-Right thriller novel The Way Of The Shadow Wolves, Gal Gadot and friends covering “Imagine”, Kevin Spacey’s Christmas video as his House of Cards character Frank Underwood, Loqueesha, Gotti and, of course, Jeremy Renner’s app.
The Joy of Trash is a very good book about very bad people and very bad entertainment.
It's available now from me now at the shop for Nathan Rabin's Happy Place store at nathanrabin.com/shop or from Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NR9NTB4?linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1&tag=sofferscom1-20
If order today or tomorrow, it can arrive at your door before Christmas! Wouldn't that be nice! And please do help me spread the word! I don't have a publicist or a publisher, so word of mouth is of the utmost importance!
Nathan
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